The 4Fs: A Trauma Typology in Complex PTSD By Pete Walker

This paper describes a trauma typology for differentially diagnosing and treating Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This model elaborates four basic defensive structures that develop out of our instinctive Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn responses to severe abandonment and trauma (heretofore referred…

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Teachers in violent Cape Flats taught how to shake away the stress

Great article in the South African Sunday Times by Dave Chambers. Academics at Stellenbosch University have found TRE® can help reduce vicarious trauma in teaching staff working in“high-risk” schools Unemployment‚ poverty‚ crime‚ violence and gangs are leaving teachers on the Cape Flats…

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